About the Authors

Indra Bergval

i.bergval@kit.nl

Affiliation KIT Biomedical Research, Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Brian Kwok

Current address: (BK) Department of Molecular Oncology, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Affiliation KIT Biomedical Research, Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Anja Schuitema

Affiliation KIT Biomedical Research, Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Kristin Kremer

Current address: (KK) Tuberculosis and M/XDR-TB Programme, Division of Communicable Diseases, Health Security and Environment, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark

Affiliation Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Dick van Soolingen

Affiliations Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory, Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, The Netherlands, Departments of Microbiology and of Pulmonary Diseases, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre/University Lung Centre Dekkerswald, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Paul Klatser

Affiliation KIT Biomedical Research, Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Richard Anthony

Affiliation KIT Biomedical Research, Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IB KK RA. Performed the experiments: IB BK AS. Analyzed the data: IB BK RA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IB AS KK DvS PK RA. Wrote the paper: IB KK DvS PK RA.